Smarter Parking DfT Hosted Connected Vehicle Deployment Day 24th May 2017 Kieran Fitsall Head of Service Improvement & Transformation

The Westminster Connected Parking Project Funded by DfT to build on Westminster investment Collaborative working with providers Make most of existing data from sensors Explore other sensor technology Integrate payment with parking spaces into vehicle and app Use Big Data to improve operations and inform policy making Make parking easier DfT want lessons learned to be spread to other UK LAs Blueprint, setting the standard National relevance for future initiatives

Sensors In ground Tailor to application Monitor spaces or rows? Vehicles and statistics can be “sensors” too Drivers only need one space If we know how to manage sensor data and vehicle data… Support Mobility as a Service Assist autonomous vehicles (surely they will need to park sometimes) Taxi bay sensors from Clever Citi being installed Collecting stakeholder input

Optical sensors Tell drivers where there is already over ranking Balance out service Tell customers where there is a taxi?

Real-time parking availability Millions of vehicle movements from 3500 bays

Payment The key to one touch payment Customer happiness Need to allow for many different ways to pay Make it invisible to the user Make it simple to pay and to stop paying Dongle or movement sensor in phone/ vehicle One Click parking - Don’t rely on people! Refunds, customer care etc – think about the detail of the customer journey

Open API Parking bay location – Street and electoral ward/districts Parking bay capacity REAL TIME availability GPS longitude and latitude The type of parking bay – Disabled, paid, residents, loading Parking tariff that apply to paid parking bays Hours of operation for all bays Details to allow users to pay to park by mobile phone LIVE parking suspension details So your self driving car doesn’t try and park in a suspended bay

Big Data What does data tell us about parking use? Can we improve operations and policy? How do we improve enforcement / customer experience? Xerox Merge tool coming on line Combines data that drives parking What if? Uses data catalogue produced in the project to fuse all data In LA, Xerox’s data approach has extended time limits from 2 to 10 hours in the most underused spaces, leading to an increase in parkers Paid use improved by 18% revenue improved by 22% Hackathon next year

Next Steps: Open Data Put it out there for others to use https://api.parkright.io/ Publish data and open API Over 100 users registered Park in London and Moscow! Make a catalogue Not just your parking data Make it available Find out who uses it and what they do with it Lesson learned Need a critical mass of sensors & data One Borough, One City, One nation.. Interoperability Standards

Overall Benefits Solutions have the potential to save motorists time, stress, money, while dramatically increasing productivity Cities benefit from reduced traffic, congestion and pollution More efficient use of on-street resources Motorists spend less time searching for parking Better balance of bay occupancy across the network Improved customer experience and ease of payment

Next steps … Sensors and Apps deployed - first results coming soon Lessons learned paper for DfT to share with other LAs Parking data standards and LA implications How do we balance market agility with interoperability? Working with BPA on their Parking 20:20 vision Must avoid one app per city

Kieran Fitsall kfitsall@westminster.gov.uk